March is Crochet Month!

This month is National Crochet Month (yay!) Since I still have a bunch of UFO’s I am just going to focus on those. I am also going to teach The Bee how to crochet. I have a book for kids, a website and extra yarn. Taking a deep breath and grabbing a hook,-r

Eyes and Ears and Mouth and Nose

Today’s preschool storyhour was dedicated to the five senses. We did a reverse storytime: activity/craft first. The reading last. The normal group was not in attendance which actually worked to my advantage. Since today’s group was smaller there was no pulling of Miss Rachée in 18 different directions. I set up exploration/discovery stations for each sense and let the kids…

March Madness Too

or after the snow day, an avalanche of work. The best thing about snow days are also the worst thing: no work. My return to work was a return to a pile of books on my desk, a ton* of e-mail waiting for my response, SIX voice mails (although not one of them was the phone calls I was waiting…

Read Across America

The sun did shineBut it was too cold to playI sat in the house andEnjoyed a snow day! It started as a warning: March was bringing a Nor’easter and we all needed to prepare for the six to fourteen inches of snow that was coming our way. I had gone food shopping (we were close to doing our best Macguyver’s…

March Madness

Is it March already? February flew by so fast that I am still waiting for Phil. Remember a time when you thought time was moving so slow it moved backwards. Now time is moving so fast that one can barely think straight! Whew! Let’s see… With March on the horizon here what am I going to focus on this month?…